Chapter 15 Solutions

University Physics Volume 1

Ch. 15 - Check Your Understanding Why would it hurt more if...Ch. 15 - Check Your Understanding Identify one way you...Ch. 15 - Check Your Understanding Identify an object that...Ch. 15 - Check Your Understanding An engineer builds two...Ch. 15 - Check Your Understanding Why are completely...Ch. 15 - Check Your Understanding A famous magic trick...Ch. 15 - What conditions must be met to produce SHM?Ch. 15 - (a) If frequency is not constant for some...Ch. 15 - Give an example of a simple harmonic oscillator,...Ch. 15 - Explain why you expect an object made of a stiff...

Ch. 15 - As you pass a freight truck with a trailer on a...Ch. 15 - Some people modify cars to be much closer to the...Ch. 15 - Describe a system in which elastic potential...Ch. 15 - Explain in terms of energy how dissipative forces...Ch. 15 - The temperature of the atmosphere oscillates from...Ch. 15 - Can this analogy of SHM to circular motion be...Ch. 15 - Can this analogy of SHM to circular motion be...Ch. 15 - Can this analogy of SHM to circular motion be...Ch. 15 - A pendulum clock works by measuring the period of...Ch. 15 - With the use of a phase shift, the position of an...Ch. 15 - Give an example of a damped harmonic oscillator....Ch. 15 - How would a car bounce after a bump under each of...Ch. 15 - Most harmonic oscillators are damped and, if...Ch. 15 - Why are soldiers in general ordered to “route...Ch. 15 - Do you think there is any harmonic motion in the...Ch. 15 - Some engineers use sound to diagnose performance...Ch. 15 - Prove that using x(t)=Asin(t+) will produce the...Ch. 15 - What is the period of 60.0 Hz of electrical power?Ch. 15 - If your heart rate is 150 beats per minute during...Ch. 15 - Find the frequency of a tuning fork that takes...Ch. 15 - A stroboscope is set to flash every 8.00105 s....Ch. 15 - A tire has a tread pattern with a crevice every...Ch. 15 - Each piston of an engine makes a sharp sound every...Ch. 15 - A type of cuckoo clock keeps time by having a mass...Ch. 15 - A mass m0is attached to a spring and hung...Ch. 15 - A 0.500-kg mass suspended from a spring oscillates...Ch. 15 - By how much leeway (both percentage and mass)...Ch. 15 - Fish are hung on a spring scale to determine their...Ch. 15 - It is weigh-in time for the local under-85-kg...Ch. 15 - One type of BB gun uses a spring-driven plunger to...Ch. 15 - When an 80.0-kg man stands on a pogo stick, the...Ch. 15 - A spring has a length of 0.200 m when a 0.300-kg...Ch. 15 - The length of nylon rope from which a mountain...Ch. 15 - The motion of a mass on a spring hung vertically,...Ch. 15 - (a) A novelty clock has a 0.0100-kg-mass object...Ch. 15 - Reciprocating motion uses the rotation of a motor...Ch. 15 - A student stands on the edge of a merry-go-round...Ch. 15 - What is the length of a pendulum that has a period...Ch. 15 - Some people think a pendulum with a period of 1.00...Ch. 15 - What is the period of a 1.00-m-long pendulum?Ch. 15 - How long does it take a child on a swing to...Ch. 15 - The pendulum on a cuckoo clock is 5.00-cm long....Ch. 15 - Two parakeets sit on a swing with their combined...Ch. 15 - (a) A pendulum that has a period of 3.00000 s and...Ch. 15 - A pendulum with a period of 2.00000 s in one...Ch. 15 - (a) What is the effect on the period of a pendulum...Ch. 15 - The amplitude of a lightly damped oscillator...Ch. 15 - How much energy must the shock absorbers of a...Ch. 15 - If a car has a suspension system with a force...Ch. 15 - (a) How much will a spring that has a force...Ch. 15 - Suppose you have a 0.750-kg object on a horizontal...Ch. 15 - Suppose you attach an object with mass m to a...Ch. 15 - A diver on a diving board is undergoing SHM. Her...Ch. 15 - Suppose a diving board with no one on it bounces...Ch. 15 - The device pictured in the following figure...Ch. 15 - A mass is placed on a frictionless, horizontal...Ch. 15 - Find the ratio of the new/old periods of a...Ch. 15 - At what rate will a pendulum clock run on the...Ch. 15 - If a pendulum-driven clock gains 5.00 s/day, what...Ch. 15 - A 2.00-kg object hangs, at rest, on a 1.00-m-long...Ch. 15 - A 2.00-kg object hangs, at rest, on a 1.00-m-long...Ch. 15 - Assume that a pendulum used to drive a grandfather...Ch. 15 - A 2.00-kg block lies at rest on a frictionless...Ch. 15 - A suspension bridge oscillates with an effective...Ch. 15 - Near the top of the Citigroup Center building in...Ch. 15 - Parcels of air (small volumes of air) in a stable...Ch. 15 - Consider the van der Waals potential U(r)=U0[( R 0...Ch. 15 - Suppose the length of a clock’s pendulum is...Ch. 15 - (a) The springs of a pickup truck act like a...

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